11 techniques that will make your life simpler and less stressful

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Is chaos increasing in your life? You are not alone – the whole universe is affected. These 11 techniques will help you towards a simpler life.

man in gray jacket standing on rock formation during daytime

Pfff – can this be simpler?

Entropy is everywhere: if we do nothing, life will only become more chaotic.

Systems in this universe – including your life – tend to become more and more complex .

We can (temporarily) reduce entropy, but that does not happen automatically.

Removing chaos from your life is like building a sandcastle in the surf – eventually you lose it to the sea, but you have a lot of fun in the meantime.

If we want to live a simpler life with less stress, we must constantly work on this. Then it is important that we set up habits and systems that help us every day to tame the chaos , to keep an overview and to increase simplicity.

These 11 techniques have helped me for years, maybe they will help you too.

Let’s see.

1. Tidy up your house

If you live in an empty room with no stuff, you never have to tidy up and you never lose anything. Cleaning is also fast!

It’s just not very practical.

It does show how it works: the more stuff you add to the empty room, the more complex the situation becomes .

  • Clean up more
  • Cleaning more
  • Lost more things
  • More anxiety and stress
  • Move and put back more
  • Less physical and mental space
  • More hassle to move
  • Etc.

You make your life easier with less stuff . But it’s a balance – too little can actually complicate your life.

For example, life is simpler with a can opener when you want to open a can. But nobody needs three can openers.

The question you want to ask yourself at home (and for the rest of your life) is simple:

“What is essential for a good life?”

The rest can go.

Just start small: scan your environment, find something that is unnecessary and get rid of it now.

That cleans up nicely.

2. Clean up your digital clutter

All those documents on your desktop don’t make your life any easier. The same goes for that mailbox with 1,402 unread messages.

Digital clutter is no different from real clutter: eventually you ‘have’ to do something with it . And in the meantime, it makes your life more viscous than it needs to be.

A tidy digital environment is an extension of a tidy home. Especially if you spend a lot of time on your devices.

For example, now walk through your smartphone and find at least one app that you can delete.

Advanced Challenge: Delete the Facebook, Instagram, Reddit or Tiktok app (or all of them!) 🚀

3. Reduce your screen time

Speaking of devices – if a simpler life is your goal then it helps to dose your screen time .

Of course, we first look at your smartphone. But maybe it’s also your laptop, tablet, television or game console for you.

We receive most of the stressful messages through our screens . Bad news, shocking posts on social media, YouTube videos or Reddit posts that concern us (negatively), drama or all kinds of unnecessary input via group apps, an endless stream of (unnecessary) notifications, work emails in your spare time – it doesn’t stop.

Bring a little more ’80s into your life and reduce your screen time step by step. Recently I described the steps I took:

Now dive into your screen time stats and see which apps gave you the most notifications last week. Simply silence one or more of these apps completely – nice and quiet.

4. Decide what matters most

If you know what you want, you know what you can cut.

When I know I want to travel towards the sun, I no longer have to orientate myself on ski suits but only on swimming trunks – it makes my life easier.

Making a decision instantly makes your life easier . Even if you don’t make the ‘perfect’ choice.

So you can ask yourself, “What does my ideal life look like?”

Write the answer to this question directly in your diary, notebook or a notes app.

Focus your attention on the things that bring you closer to this ideal, and try to give less and less time and attention to the rest.

5. Give yourself a simple and clear goal

With a concrete goal you immediately make your life simpler.

Suppose, in my ideal life, I do half an hour of yoga every morning before the kids wake up.

A concrete goal can then help me to achieve this. For example, I set a goal of learning my morning yoga habit within 30 days .

Such a goal immediately spurs me to action:

  • I’m going to delve into getting up earlier and set my alarm a little earlier.
  • I also go to bed a little earlier and adjust my evening routine.
  • I’m taking some steps to make my attic suitable for a nice yoga routine.
  • I streamline my evening and morning routine to make this habit easier (I lay out clothes, unroll the mat, fill a bottle of water, etc.)
  • I’m going to look for some tips for a suitable yoga routine that helps me on the points that I find important. Based on that, I put together a standard routine that I’m going to try.
  • I start with my new habit, and adjust based on what I learn.
  • I track my progress and feel motivated to get used to this new habit within 30 days.

A goal helps you put your ideal life into practice . It helps you focus, making your life simpler.

Now think of a simple goal you can set to achieve one aspect of your ideal life.

6. Streamline your life for more simplicity

Often there is something you can do to reduce ‘hassle’ and ‘trammeling’ in your routines.

By streamlining your life you can save a lot of time and aggravation and make your life easier.

For example: thanks to a few key hooks in the hallway, we never lose our keys again! A stupid example perhaps, but a great pleasure for me every day.

You make a process clearer, simpler and reduce friction.

Look for a small optimization that you can do today to streamline your life, so that you move more easily towards your ideal life.

7. Practice gratitude

Gratitude simplifies your life because its opposite is the cause of almost all of your frustration .

Gratitude feeds contentment and joy. This makes you feel good and you don’t have a constant tendency to change everything.

Dissatisfaction does the opposite: it pushes you to action . And much of that action actually makes our lives more complex because it is often focused on ‘more’: buying more things, doing more things, making more money, etc.

There is nothing wrong with wanting something and working towards it. But it is important to realize that this can also cause complexity in your life.

Satisfaction is often much more efficient .

If you can feel grateful for your current smartphone, you feel less inclined to order a new version. This saves you a mountain of money, so you can save more, work less and feel more free.

Not upgrading is likely to have a greater positive impact on your quality of life than upgrading.

Especially because you quickly get used to your new smartphone, so that you are back to square one ‘satisfaction-technically’.

8. Simplify your agenda

A simpler life with less stress contains a lot of ‘play space’ – space that is not blocked with all kinds of activities.

We feel that a rich and complex life full of outings and “nice things” is optimal. But, as with anything, too much of a good thing can become stressful.

For example, I used to fill my week so often with fun things that it ironically stressed me out .

Now we like to provide enough unstructured time. Time that can be spontaneously filled with activities that we find fun and important.

Take a look at your agenda and research at least one way to create more leeway now.

9. Practice mindfulness

Your life doesn’t start when you ‘finally’ achieve your goals. Your life is here and now .

This is it.

This it always has been and always will be. The rest is just a story in your mind .

Mindfulness actually makes everything simple, because it helps you realize how simple life is when you don’t take your thoughts so seriously.

You can increase mindfulness by practicing mindful meditation on a regular basis. You can also practice more mindfulness throughout your day – for example, when you read this article.

10. Simplify your diet

Healthy and simple food makes your life simpler because it helps you to be healthier and more energetic.

Health complaints are an enormous source of unwanted complexity . Healthy living can help you prevent, reduce or solve health problems.

Eat simple, healthy dishes. Do not eat too much and not unnecessarily often. And if you really want to make it simple for yourself: pick up intermittent fasting .

Eating nothing sometimes turns out to be surprisingly simple:

Grab – when you get hungry – for example, just a piece of fruit or some (unroasted, unsalted) nuts.

Much simpler than a croissant. 🍎

11. Surrender to life

Complete surrender is the ultimate – and most advanced – form of simple living.

It works very simply: instead of resisting reality, you decide to embrace life – just the way it is.

You stop fighting against that which is .

It’s challenging, because we constantly wish life were different than it is. And that wish causes us stress, frustration and discomfort because we have no influence on reality .

Things are just the way they are, not otherwise.

Because if they should have been different, then they were different. And they are no different, so apparently this is just the way it should be.

The more times you manage to get to this place, the simpler your life becomes:

  • You see that you are good as you are , including the sides of yourself that you don’t like and including your desire to change those sides of yourself.
  • You understand that the feelings you experience are allowed to be there , even if they feel uncomfortable. You also see that you can find them uncomfortable.
  • You understand that things can and should happen , even if you don’t agree. At the same time, you realize that you can disagree with that event, even if it doesn’t change the situation.
  • You accept that you do not always have the solution to every problem . Instead of feeling frustrated at your lack of knowledge or power, embrace the opportunity to learn and grow.
  • You understand that not everyone will always agree with you , and that’s fine. It’s okay to disagree and still be respectful and understanding.
  • You see that life is not always fair and you will be disappointed at times . But instead of getting angry at the world, accept this situation as part of life.
  • You realize that you are not perfect and that you will make mistakes . But instead of punishing yourself for these mistakes, embrace them as opportunities to learn and grow.

It is also called radical acceptance .

It’s beautiful stuff, although it’s not always easy.

You will naturally get better at it the more you practice mindfulness. And your mindfulness grows almost naturally when you reduce your screen time, pushing your life in this direction and creating more unstructured time.

You don’t get a simple and stress-free life as a gift – you have to do something for it because chaos is the norm. But with smart choices and strategic habits, you can keep entropy at bay a bit.

And that’s well worth it if you ask me.

So – did you already delete those social media apps? 😉

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THE SILENT KILLER NAMED STRESS

FacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailFigure out how to perceive the signs previously you wind up in a folded stack!

Stress – it’s a piece of life would it say it isn’t? Stress is great!

We subject ourselves to stretch constantly, we require some worry, at work and in our day by day lives. Without weight and stress we would essentially complete nothing, we wouldn’t accomplish anything! Stress is a positive power when it strengthens your life and empowers you to understand your fantasies. Things being what they are, the more, the better at that point?

All things considered, consider it for a minute and be cautious what you wish for. Similarly as we require oxygen noticeable all around that we inhale to survive, unadulterated oxygen will slaughter us. So it is with push, we require a few, however when does stretch at that point turns out to be counter profitable and a dangerous power in our lives?

How would YOU see push?

Do you require the “Buzz” of that very late due date?

Do you get a “Surge” from the duties of a high-weight circumstance?

Do you get a “High” by making a circumstance that produces outrage or dread?

Do you say to your workmates “I blossom with push”?

Do you “live in fear” for your activity?

Do you “Stress” always about your capacities at work?

Do you “Dread” rivalry at work?

Do you “Change” in the driver’s seat of your auto?

Our physiological reaction to stretch shows itself in our bodies, by creating stimulants and different anxiety hormones, which go about as state of mind adjusting gadgets, so we turn out to be considerably less aware of torment, both physical and mental. We can set ourselves a risky point of reference here, on the off chance that we overlook the signs that our bodies use to caution us that we are making ourselves vunerable to breakdown. Overlook this guidance at your hazard!

A typical manifestation of stress is a people absence of regard for and satisfaction in, eating. The stimulants and different anxiety hormones which makes us worn out, peevish and irate, absolutely disturbs our stomach related capacity. We likewise tend to settle on poor decisions about eating when we’re focused on either through time limitations or a want to eat comfort nourishment. As indicated by your air this will either cause lost craving, exhausting your group of vitamins, minerals and supplements, prompting weight reduction and weakness, or weight increase, through an eating regimen of garbage nourishment eaten in a surge, prompting stomach related scatters and other weight-related issues. Poor sustenance will additionally debilitate your protection from disease and enable different side effects of worry to create. It’s a descending winding.

Stress hormones are gigantically intense and have reactions that can actually slaughter you. Stress turns into a terrible thing when it achieves a level past which you feel in charge any more, when you end up feeling tense, drained and awkward.

It’s not recently the person that appears to be well on the way to drop dead from a stroke or a heart assault that is in danger here. Stress hormones can add to ulcers and other serious gastro-intestinal issues, diabetes, hypertension and coronary illness. These chemicals are likewise causal factors in a large group of mental issues, for example, dejection and uneasiness. It can likewise debilitate the resistant framework, which makes you more powerless to disease and influences the body’s capacity to recuperate.

Ask yourself – am I pushed or am I trying to claim ignorance?

What amount of stress is excessively stretch?

All things considered, we’re all one of a kind, and everybody encounters stretch in an unexpected way.

So how would we approach perceiving the signs previously it turns into a major issue?

To begin with, check the accompanying records and be straightforward with yourself. On the off chance that you begin to show some of these indications, they might caution signs that your feelings of anxiety are turning into a reason for concern. Your body and your feelings are endeavoring to give you a “wake-up” call. Tune in to what your body is letting you know.

– Resentful stomach

– Stomach torments

– Loss of craving

– Serious cerebral pains

– Wooziness

– Fractiousness

– Apprehensive Tick or Flickering

– A sleeping disorder

– Incessant weariness

– Undeniable irritation and bears and back

– Hardened neck and bears or back

– Teeth Pounding

– Poor concentration and memory

How you feel can show indications of stress as well, search for the accompanying:

– Restless

– Discouraged

– Baffled

– Hustled

– Over-burden

– Constrained

– Tense

– Stressed

Distinguishing worry at the beginning periods makes it such a great amount of less demanding to treat. Great propensities can be received to guarantee that you have a decent work/life adjust and push lessening turns into a reasonable exercise.

Figure out how to perceive the signs that anxiety is beginning to develop and be set up to act rapidly on the issues causing this, since issues appear to develop in force in the event that they are not managed. The alleviation will be moment and you’ll be happy that you did.

Realize that you generally have options and figuring out how to legitimately oversee stress will make you a more joyful individual and truly will enhance your life.

In the event that we are straightforward with ourselves, we can perceive the signs that anxiety is achieving an unusual level, obviously it’s diverse for everybody. The circumstance can turn out to be more genuine when the sufferer is trying to claim ignorance of the self-evident, when feelings of anxiety would then be able to achieve deplorable levels previously the sufferer has a genuine, here and there disastrous well being emergency.

Stress can cause genuine sickness and regardless of the possibility that it doesn’t go ahead to do that; it can make you altogether hopeless meanwhile. This article should frighten, however to make you mindful and to move you to make protection move before it’s past the point of no return.Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmail

Business people How To Lessen Stress

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This article takes a gander at approaches to lessen the sum individuals push. I was regularly known as a bit if an anxiety head, which I need to concede was a decent portrayal of me. I have now learnt about approaches to unwind, which have helped me to carry on a substantially more joyful life.

There have been various issues in my own life which have made me lose certainty, wind up noticeably pushed and even discouraged. These include:

An absence of genuine companions

I have had issues with obligation

A falter

A bare fix

I have had issues controlling my weight

I was frequently suspicious about what other individuals thought of me

These issues have caused me numerous restless evenings. I would be not able get the opportunity to rest as I was not able unwind. This was because of always agonizing and thoroughly considering my issues.

I at that point chose to ponder routes in which I could build my confidence, diminish the sum that I pushed and furthermore about how I could figure out how to unwind. After quite a while, I trusted that I had a few apparatuses and systems which would help me.

Stress administration systems

Quit thinking to such an extent

I am what individuals call a scholar. I fundamentally think excessively. This would not be an issue in the event that I was thinking decidedly obviously I was a negative mastermind.

To help me in this mission to quit considering, I chose to begin tuning in to more music. At whatever point I hit a negative manner of thinking, I would play this music. This could be the point at which I am in the auto, when I am in the house and notwithstanding when I am sleeping.

The music takes my brain off the issues that I was worrying about.

Stop smoking and begin practicing

Many individuals choose to smoke a cigarette when they are focused. I trust that a far more beneficial and less expensive alternative is to work out.

I will do a couple of weights and a couple of press ups which encourages me to let off some steam. It likewise encourages me to battle my outrage and fears.

Figuring out how to unwind

Unwinding was something I discovered hard to do.

I have now begun different types of option treatment, for example, yoga, reflection and reflexology. These are brilliant at helping individuals to unwind and furthermore help to diminish levels of stress.

This is the thing that has helped me to lessen my own anxiety levels and I trust the guidance will be of advantage to other individuals.

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